BA (Hons) Music Technology & Production Bachelor's degree at East London

This module equips you with the core skills needed to work confidently in recording and studio environments. You'll learn how to use industry-standard software to record and sequence both audio and MIDI data, gaining hands-on experience in producing professional-quality tracks. You'll be introduced to a range of essential techniques, from microphone selection and placement to using mixing consoles and studio equipment effectively. You'll also develop your ability to plan and run a complete reco

In this module, you'll work on two complementary projects that link technical music production with critical cultural understanding. In practical sessions, you'll build a broad set of production skills, while cultural contexts classes will deepen your awareness of how music relates to wider cultural and critical discourses. By taking part in creative projects, you'll explore how your own production practice connects to social, historical and cultural themes, ensuring that technical skills and c

This module gives you a strong foundation in the key skills needed for creative work with music and sound. Through an integrated mix of theory and practice, you'll develop core techniques in critical listening, sound composition, location recording, and sound manipulation, all essential for building a professional sound design practice. You'll explore how to create and shape sound for a range of audio-visual contexts, while also developing the language and understanding needed to describe sound

This module gives you the chance to apply the specialist skills and techniques you've developed throughout your course in a real-world creative process. What this looks like will depend on your discipline, whether it's a performance, presentation, installation, creative production or event. You'll explore how imagination and creativity feed into rehearsal or studio practice, as well as the development and sharing of your work.

This module focuses on the application of techniques to classical and contemporary scene studies. You will explore the ways in which imaginative and creative processes lead into rehearsal and studio practice, developing your ability to approach characterisation, script analysis and performance. You will learn how to execute your creative work with awareness of professional standards as an emerging artist.

In this module, you'll explore the skills, knowledge and experiences needed to succeed in a wide range of potential career paths, whether that's through entrepreneurship, employment, or advancing within your creative specialism. You'll develop critical and creative thinking skills alongside practical techniques that are relevant to your discipline. Through workshops and guided activities, you'll also begin to identify key areas for your own professional growth.

This module helps you advance your skills in sound and music, while developing a professional approach to creative practice. You'll follow a structured process, reflecting on your progress, and apply your abilities to projects designed to reflect real-world industry contexts. You'll explore both linear and non-linear sound design, gaining insight into current professional practices. You'll examine interactivity, non-linear models, and how sound and music converge with moving image.

In this module you will apply your course specific skills in contexts that connect with the public sphere. You will explore the ways in which creative production in your discipline can consider, reflect on and communicate pressing issues, as well as the ways in which different creative forms can reach diverse audiences. Alongside professional creative activities you will consider the ethics of creative practice in relation to communities.

In this module, you'll take your sound production abilities to a higher level, working collaboratively on a self-directed project that culminates in a live presentation of your work. You'll explore how creative and musical identities are shaped, both through historical developments and within your own practice. As well as creating and performing, you'll research and analyse the production and cultural contexts of music from the 20th and 21st centuries.

This module helps you build the skills and understanding needed to thrive in professional creative contexts. You'll engage with two core areas: developing techniques for industry-focused creative projects and exploring the cultural, theoretical and professional contexts of your own creative practice. If you're studying Music Technology, you'll gain advanced insight into how sound and music interact with moving image.

This module helps you build the skills and experience needed to thrive in a wide range of creative and professional careers. You'll develop key areas of enterprise and employability, advancing the personal and professional competencies you began building earlier in your course, including emotional, social, physical, cultural and cognitive skills.

In this module you will extend your exploration of creative practice in relation to people and places, communities, and the public sphere. You will apply creative production work in your discipline with consideration of its connections to social and political issues. You will develop approaches to audiences and participants exploring the challenges of engaging diverse groups.

In this module, you will bring your short film, developed in Term 1, from concept to completion. You will take full creative and logistical control, managing casting, location scouting, camera hire, and all aspects of production. Additionally, you will refine your post-production skills in preparation for the final screening at UEL Short Film Festival.

This module introduces you to the core skills and approaches needed for entrepreneurial success in the creative industries. You'll learn how to create project proposals, pitch ideas, manage events and produce live experiences, gaining practical knowledge that will support your own creative ventures. You'll explore market and audience research, programming, curation and evaluation, and gain insight into working with artists through liaison and coordination.

In this module, you will initiate and develop a substantial creative performance project that reflects your individual musical identity and professional practice. Building on skills and approaches developed throughout the course, you will define the creative direction of your project and manage its production process through planning, rehearsal, and performance stages.